I don't know the Council answers but hopefully this means that the food waste will go to make commercial compost and cut our main waste by roughly half. In our borough's case this will reduce the carbon emissions due to incineration.

It principally looks like a strategy to encourage more recycling to me. I think that Lewisham scores comparatively low in this regard:
http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/househ...es-borough

Am glad that the combined recycling collection is being retained. I think that if the aim to increase recycling rates then we should make it easy for people. I suppose it is still even easier to just not bother. This is trying to nudge behaviour in the green direction.

My 2p.